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Quotas to Gender-Balance the Board: Norway’s Drastic Action Worked
Idea posted: April 2016
Institutions: Tuck School of Business Norwegian School of Economics
In December of 2005, Norway passed a quota law requiring that women make up a minimum of 40% of corporate boards. Corporations had 2 years to comply with the law.…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #602
Male Middle Managers: Linchpins of Gender Parity at Work
Idea posted: January 2016
Institutions: Cranfield University School of Management
Many CEOs recognize gender equality as an important strategic priority. However, top-level strategic priorities can be undermined if male middle managers display or enable gender bias through the type of…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #572
Millennials 6: Attitudes Differ Based on Age and Gender-Sometimes
Idea posted: October 2015
Institutions: INSEAD
A new worldwide study of nearly 20,000 Millennials from around the world revealed the vast diversity of a generation that is often mistakenly treated as a homogeneous group with one…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #560
Six Disruptive Demographic Trends and What They Mean for the Workplace
Idea posted: October 2015
Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
According to Jim Johnson of University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, the major demographic trends transforming America today are unprecedented — so unprecedented that he calls these trends “disruptive…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #557
Bossy: What’s Gender Got to Do with It?
Idea posted: May 2015
Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)
The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) conducted research on the role of the word bossy in the workplace. Their results show a consistent trend that being bossy in the workplace…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #511
How Political Correctness Increases Creativity in Mixed-Sex Teams
Idea posted: April 2015
Institutions: Cornell University University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business Washington University Olin Business School Vanderbilt University
Conventional wisdom has it that diversity helps creativity, in that people in homogenous groups are similar to one another with similar ideas and therefore less divergent thinking occurs. Also most…
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Why Women Who Blend Gender and Professional Identities Are Better Negotiators
Idea posted: July 2014
Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University University of Oregon Columbia Business School
Why are some women negotiators better than others? The answer may lie in whether or not women believe that their gender and professional identities are compatible or not. Women who…
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Why Women, Particularly Mothers, Miss Out on Mentors and Networking
Idea posted: May 2014
Institutions: Indiana University ESSEC Business School University of Michigan Ross School of Business
As documented by statistics of women in the workplace, entrenched gender discrimination — perhaps more subtle than in the past but just as damaging — continue to impede the careers…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #376
Retaining Women in the Workplace
Idea posted: February 2014
Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
According to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics, the participation rate for women in the labour force was down from 60.3% in 2000, to 57.6% in 2012. This was despite…
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